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—T. Dobson, on the Explosions in British Coal-Mines during the year 1859 ;—J. Old- 
ham, Continuation of Report on Steam Navigation at Hull ;—Prof. G. Dickie, Brief 
Summary of a Report on the Flora of the North of Ireland ;—Prof. Owen, on the 
Psychical and Physical Characters of the Mincopies, or Natives of the Andaman 
Islands, and on the Relations thereby indicated to other Races of Mankind ;—Colonel 
Sykes, Report of the Balloon Committee ;—Major-General Sabine, Report on the Re- 
petition of the Magnetic Survey of England ;—Interim Report of the Committee for 
Dredging on the North and East Coasts of Scotland ;—W. Fairbairn, on the Resist- 
ance of Iron Plates to Statical Pressure and the Force of Impact by Projectiles at 
High Velocities ;—W. Fairbairn, Continuation of Report to determine the effect of 
Vibratory Action and long-continued Changes of Load upon Wrought-Iron Girders ; 
—Report of the Committee on the Law of Patents;—Prof. H. J. 8. Smith, Report on 
the Theory of Numbers, Part III. 
Together with the Transactions of the Sections, Mr. Fairbairn’s Address, and Re- 
commendations of the Association and its Committees. 
PROCEEDINGS or rar THIRTY-SECOND MEETING at Cam- 
bridge, October 1862, Published at £1. 
ConTENTS :—James Glaisher, Report on Observations of Luminous Meteors, 1861- 
62 ;—G. B. Airy, on the Strains in the Interior of Beams ;—Archibald Smith and F, 
J. Evans, Report on the three Reports of the Liverpool Compass Committee ;—Report 
on Tidal Observations on the Humber;—T. Aston, on Rifled Guns and Projectiles 
adapted for Attacking Armour-plate Defences ;—Extracts, relating to the Observa- 
tory at Kew, from a Report presented to the Portuguese Government, by Dr. J. A. 
de Souza ;—H. T. Mennell, Report on the Dredging of the Northumberland Coast 
and Dogger Bank ;—Dr. Cuthbert Collingwood, Report upon the best means of ad- 
yaneing Science through the agency of the Mercantile Marine ;—Messrs. Williamson, 
Wheatstone, Thomson, Miller, Matthiessen, and Jenkin, Provisional Report on Stan- 
dards of Electrical Resistance;—Preliminary Report of the Committee for investiga- 
ting the Chemical and Mineralogical Composition of the Granites of Donegal ;—Prof. 
H. Hennessy, on the Vertical Movements of the Atmosphere considered in connec- 
tion with Storms and Changes of Weather ;—Report of Committee on the application 
of Gauss’s General Theory of Terrestrial Magnetism to the Magnetic Variations ;—- 
-Fleeming Jenkin, on Thermo-electric Currents in Cireuits of one Metal ;—W. Fair- 
bairn, on the Mechanical Properties of Iron Projectiles at High Velocities ;—A. Cay- 
ley, Report on the Progress of the Solution of certain Special Problems of Dynamics; 
—Prof. G. G. Stokes, Report on Double Refraction ;—Fourth Report of the Committee 
‘on Steamship Performance ;—G. J. Symons, on the Fall of Rain in the British Isles 
in 1860 and 1861;—J. Ball, on Thermometric Observations in the Alps;—J. G. 
Jeffreys, Report of the Committee for Dredging on the North and East Coasts of 
Scotland ;—Report of the Committee on Technical and Scientific Evidence in Courts 
of Law;—James Glaisher, Account of Eight Balloon Ascents in 1862 ;—Prof. H. J.S. 
Smith, Report on the Theory of Numbers, Part IV. 
Together with the Transactions of the Sections, the Rev. Prof. R. Willis’s Address, 
and Recommendations of the Association and its Committees. 
PROCEEDINGS or truz THIRTY-THIRD MEETING, at New- 
castle-upon-Tyne, August and September 1863, Published at £1 5s. 
CONTENTS :—Report of the Committee on the Application of Gun-cotton to War- 
like Purposes ;—A. Matthiessen, Report on the Chemical Nature of Alloys ;—Report 
of the Committee on the Chemical and Mineralogical Constitution of the Granites of 
Donegal, and on the Rocks associated withthem ;—J. G. Jeffreys, Report of the Com- 
mittee appointed for exploring the Coasts of Shetland by means of the Dredge ;— 
G. D. Gibb, Report on the Physiological Effects of the Bromide of Ammonium ;—C. K. 
Aken, on the Transmutation of Spectral Rays, Part I.;—Dr. Robinson, Report of the 
Committee on Fog Signals ;—Report of the Committee on Standards of Electrical 
Resistance ;—E. Smith, Abstract of Report by the Indian Government on the Foods 
